[NFBF-Jacksonville] FW: Legislative Alert: Time Sensitive Action Required

Fri Jan 17 01:19:09 UTC 2025

I am so glad that I was able to get my comments in before the deadline.

Hope others will comment as well.

Best,

Russ

From: NFBF-Jacksonville <nfbf-jacksonville-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Andrew Rood via NFBF-Jacksonville
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2025 5:15 PM
To: Russ Davis <russell at radiorusty.com>
Cc: Andrew Rood <radiorexandy at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [NFBF-Jacksonville] FW: Legislative Alert: Time Sensitive Action Required

I voted.

On Thu, Jan 16, 2025, 12:46 PM Kaye Baker via NFBF-Jacksonville <nfbf-jacksonville at nfbnet.org <mailto:nfbf-jacksonville at nfbnet.org> > wrote:

Greetings all:

So often you have heard me say that even members who do not go to Washington Seminar can still participate in and are vital to the legislative process. Now is one of those times. Please read the email below, and follow the instructions to send your comments pertaining to the payment of subminimum wages to people who are blind. 

If you have any questions,  please let me know.

From: National Federation of the Blind <webmaster at nfb.org <mailto:webmaster at nfb.org> > 
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2025 12:01 PM
To: Kaye Baker <kaye.j.zimpher at gmail.com <mailto:kaye.j.zimpher at gmail.com> >
Subject: Legislative Alert: Time Sensitive Action Required

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 <https://nfb.org/civicrm/mailing/url?u=37204&qid=10892933> 

Public Comment Required on Subminimum Wages

On December 4, 2024, the US Department of Labor released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) regarding the phaseout of Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act. The National Federation of the Blind fully supports this NPRM and submitted comments on Wednesday, January 15.

The NPRM has received thousands of individual comments from those in favor of keeping subminimum wages for people with disabilities. We apologize that we did not anticipate such a substantial response from these individuals who support subminimum wages. As a result, we have an urgent request for our members to submit comments by the deadline of 11:59 p.m. on Friday, January 17

All comments are helpful even if the comment is, "I believe people with disabilities should be paid at least the minimum wage, and 14(c) certificates should be phased out.” All public comments should be submitted using the online form found at the Federal Register's website <https://nfb.org/civicrm/mailing/url?u=37205&qid=10892933> . 

The page contains a place for you to type in your comment, and then you will need to select that you are an individual, which will bring up fields for you to type in your first and last name. You will then need to check a box acknowledging you are aware any information you provide will be publicly available on regulations.gov <http://regulations.gov>  before clicking “submit.” 

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